Improvement in signs for street lamps



P. La. FRANCE.

SIGNS Fen STREET-LAMPS. N.,1,74,079. Patented Feb. 29, 1187s.

view of the frame to which the lamp and support the signs.

UNITED STAT S PATENT -OEEIoE.

PETER A. LA FRANCE, OF ELMIRA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO A. H. BALDWIN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT lN SIGNS FOR STREET-LAMPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 174,079, dated February 29, 1876 application filed August' 17, 1875. J i

- To all whom it may concern which the following is a specification, the

annexed drawings being a part of the same.

Figure I is a sectional elevation of a lamp with signs attached. Fig. II is a perspective signs are attached; showing the latter in dotted lines, and Fig. III is an elevation, showing one mode of fastening the sign-frame to the lampframe.

Thesame letters are employed in all the figures in the indication of the same parts.

The form of lamp shown in the drawings has no relation to my invention, which may be attached to any form of lamps, and is not limited to form.

A is a wire frame made to surround the These signs are painted upon strips of glass so as to show the nameas the light shines through the glass. They are sustained in the following manner: A bent wire, B, may be soldered to the wire frame A, or made to attach by a set-screw passing through clamping-pieces, as shown in Fig. 3. Two pieces of sheet metal are bent into a U formand connected at their back so as to leave an open guide or pocket closed below to receive the glass signs, which are dropped into their proper-recesses. A tube,

G, is soldered between the anglesof the U- ordinary lamp made of plate of glass set in a metallic frame.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent as an improvement in the mode of attaching street-signs to street-lamps, is

1. In combination with the body of a streetlampa frameof metal and glass inclosing the body of the lamp and independently supported, for the purpose of indicating. the names of the street, substantially as set forth. 2. In combination with the independent wire frame A, inclosing the body of the lamp, the bent wires B, and pockets 0, and glass plates D, substantially as set forth.

3. In combination with the frame and sign plate inclosing the body of the lamp, the pockets 0 adjustablv attached to the frame,

substantially as set fortl In testimony whereof,.I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of t.vo subscribing witnesses.

' r P. A. LA FRANCE. Witnesses:

. CHAS. BARTHOLOMEW,

M. 0. BADGER. 

